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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able…
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I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which…
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She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.
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It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must…
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I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we…
— Gene Wolfe
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She couldn’t help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than…
— C.C. Hunter
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Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you…
— James A. Baldwin
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Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking…
— Richard Dawkins
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